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The Young Karl Marx

Le jeune Karl Marx

2017

Raoul Peck

August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet ...

6.3

2,664

Drama 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Revolutionary in content, not in execution (...) at once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A drama so old school that it tames the radicalism of its subject (...) It’s an impeccably crafted and honorable movie — but, I have to say, not a very enthralling one."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"There’s a specter haunting Europe — the specter of mediocre biopics (...) [It] is well-furnished and fitfully gripping stuff, but it desperately lacks the full-bodied fervor that crackles throughout his Oscar-nominated documentary"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Somehow the spectacle of fiercely angry people talking about ideas becomes absorbing and even gripping (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"One of the merits of 'The Young Karl Marx' is the way it evokes the revolutionary climate of 1840s Europe as something of a game, an alpha-male sparring match"	POS
United Kingdom	Jessica Kiang BBC	"Peck's intelligent, textured film-making makes potentially arcane political discussions sing with urgency (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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